This window portrays a stone-mason in a knee-length
yellow tunic and blue hose. The inscription names
William Campiun and gives a date which looks like 1313.
It is one of the earliest windows in England showing an
artisan at his work. It was cleaned and re-leaded in 1976-7.
With its original lead it was lent to the Age of Chivalry
exhibition of 1987-8, and is discussed in the catalogue.
The old lead hangs in a case near the window.
The sedilia in the chancel is fourteenth-century and is
probably William Campiun's work.
There is an excellent picture of the Campiun window on the
cover of the Shire Archaeology handbook Medieval Masons
by Malcolm Hislop, published 2000. The cover caption records
the fact that it is a "fourteenth-century stained glass panel
from St Mary Magdalene, depicting a mason, William Campiun,
wielding his mason's axe." Although there is no further
mention of William, the book is nevertheless informative and
interesting, providing a practical guide to pursuing the study
of medieval masoncraft.
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